| James Hervey - 1755 - 452 Seiten
...Profufion of the gayeft Flowers, fringing the Banks, and embroidering the Plain ! '• • « ' — Nature Here Wantons as in her Prime, and plays at Will Her Virgin-fancies, pouring forth more Sweet % Wild above Rule or Art, enormous Blifs * ! Nothing can be... | |
| Mrs. Griffith (Elizabeth), Elizabeth Griffith - 1775 - 626 Seiten
...exuberant, than his riper judgment might have permitted the indulgence of. And here, indeed, " She wantons, as in her prime, " And plays at will her virgin fancies :" though, if I may be allowed the liberty of a criticifm about this matter, I mould be rather inclined... | |
| 1776 - 308 Seiten
...tranfparency of the waters form a retreat more pleafing than poet ever fabled. A fylvan fcene, For nature here Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more fweet, Wild above rule or art, enormous blifs. Mean while the murmuring waters fall... | |
| Sir John Talbot Dillon - 1781 - 552 Seiten
...with delight, and all the laboured powers of invention are outdone ; for nature here, as Milton fays, Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will ., Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more fweet, Wild above rule or art. LETTER LETTER XVII. • Qbfervations made in the... | |
| sir John Talbot Dillon (1st bart.) - 1781 - 540 Seiten
...with delight, and all the laboured powers of invention are outdone ; for nature here, as Milton fays, Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more fweet, Wild above rule or art. LETTER LETTER XVII. Observations made in the city... | |
| Elizabeth Singer Rowe - 1783 - 380 Seiten
...about.in a very agreeable diforder; the whole 1'cene appears gay, but wild above rule or art. .... While Nature here * Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will Her virgin-fancies MILTOK. The orchard joining to it is fpacious and fair as th* He/perian inclofures ;... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1785 - 530 Seiten
...fubjefts of attention and admiration, and as it fills the mind with reprefentations of pleafing objedts ? Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more fvveet, Wild above rule, or art, enormous blifs. Paradife Loft, Boek V. ............... | |
| Elizabeth Singer Rowe - 1796 - 996 Seiten
...about in a very agreeable disorder; the whole scene appears gay, but wild above rule or art: - • - While Nature here Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will Her virgin fancies Milton. The orchard joining to it is spacious and fair as the Elesperian inclosurcs; violets, primroses,... | |
| Sally Hastings - 1808 - 228 Seiten
...unthankful, and fmally make Exiftence a Curfe. This County, like Weftmoreland, is hilly and luxuriant. ' Nature here Wantons, as in her prime, and plays at will Her virgin Fancies;' and yields her Increafe almoft fpontaneoufly. The Inhabitants' appear to he a fober, rational, and... | |
| Anna Seward - 1811 - 412 Seiten
...channel, now hid, now seen, along the sweep of scenes, romantic and varied in the loveliest excess : " For nature here Wantons, as in her prime, and plays at will Her virgin fancies." My destined week of elevated situation past, I sought the vale, and swiftly flew three days of high... | |
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